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Oxfam International

Oxfam International is a confederation of 13
like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies
around the world to bring about lasting change. Oxfam works directly
with communities and that seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that
poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in
decisions that affect them.

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Newswire articleTuesday, March 05, 2013Survivors Still Struggle to Recover Six Months after Pakistan FloodsHundreds of thousands of people affected by Pakistan’s 2012 floods disaster still need urgent help both to meet their immediate needs and to rebuild their homes and livelihoods in what has become a prolonged and invisible disaster, said a grouping of over 200 Pakistani and international aid agencies on Monday.Read more

Newswire articleMonday, March 04, 2013US Trade Policy Putting Public Health at RiskThe United States is again pursuing an important free trade agreement that will lock in high drug prices out of poor people’s reach – this time across the Asia-Pacific region, warns international agency Oxfam. Talks resume in Singapore this week for the ‘Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement’ (TPPA). The US is again insisting that countries must take on strict intellectual property protection and drug pricing rules when they sign the deal.Read more

Newswire articleMonday, March 04, 2013Key UN Women’s Conference Must Act to End Violence Against WomenDelegates from over 190 governments meeting at the UN-led Commission on the Status of Women this week in New York have the chance to take a critical step against the global scourge of violence against women , said international aid agency Oxfam. The agency said the two-week conference must go beyond discussing agreements made some 20 years ago at the landmark women’s rights conference in Beijing in 1995.Read more

Newswire articleWednesday, February 06, 2013Compromise on the EU Budget Will Put Millions of People on the LineThe compromise that EU leaders are set to reach on the European Union's long term budget this week will put millions of people on the line, Oxfam warned today ahead of the European Council. Oxfam estimates that the proposed €6.1 billion cuts to EU humanitarian and development aid could be enough to have lifted more than 4.6 million people in the poorest countries out of extreme poverty. The proposed cuts to emergency aid alone would mean the EU is turning a blind eye on the plight of 150 million people affected by disasters or conflicts.Read more

Newswire articleMonday, December 10, 2012Survey Shows Vast Majority of Haitian Quake Survivors Living in Camps are Unable to LeaveMore than 86 percent of people living in the camps in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince say that they are unable to leave these tent cities because they cannot afford to pay rent , according to a survey commissioned by international agency Oxfam*. The survey of 3,600 camp residents also revealed that the top two priorities for internally displaced people are the need for financial support to leave the camps (85 percent) and the need to find a stable job (50 percent).Read more

Newswire articleThursday, December 06, 2012People in Gaza Need More Than CeasefireIn a new briefing note, Beyond Ceasefire: Ending the Blockade of Gaza , Oxfam outlines concrete, specific measures that the international community and Government of Israel should take to finally bring an end to the five-year-old blockade that has devastated Gaza’s farming and fishing industries, shut down nearly 60 percent of Gaza’s businesses, cost billions in trade, and pushed 80 percent of Gaza’s people into an unsustainable reliance on humanitarian aid.Read more

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